Improvement in railway cars



. A. V; RYDER. Improvement in Railway-Cars. N0. 126,837. PatentedMay'14,18"7-2.

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ALFRED V. RYDER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN RAILWAY CARS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 126,837, dated May 14,1872 antedated May 6, 1872.

of the city, county, and State of New York.

The object of thisvinvention is to provide a railway car of given lengthdouble the ordinary sitting accommodation provided in a streetcar ofusual construction, without materially adding to its width or greatlyadding to its height. To this end it consists in a novel construction ofthe car in three compartmentsand arrangement of the seats therein,whereby the desired result is obtained.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure lis a side view of a car constructedaccording to my invention. Fig. 2 is an end view of the same; and Fig. 3is a transverse section thereof.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all thefigures.

A A and B are the three compartments. A A occupy the positions at thesides of the car with their floors on the same level as the platform 0,and their roofs d d of about the same height as the roof of an ordinarycar, to allow passengers to walk upright to and from their seats. Eachof these is entered by a door, 0, at one or each end. The compartment Bis partly between and partly above the other two, upright longitudinalpartitions f f extending from the platform or main floor 0 at equal distances from each side of the center of the car up to within about twentyinches of the roofs d d, and at a distance apart just sufficient toadmit the legs of passengers seated in two rows and facing each other.These partitions support or assist in supporting the floor g and seats hh of the central compartment, the said floor being between and abouteighteen inches below the tops of the said partition. From the backs ofthe seats h h other upright longitudinal partitions jj extend upwardabove the roofs d d of the side compartments, and sup port or assist insupporting the roof 1' of the central compartment, which is ofsufficient height from the floor gto allow the passengers to walk to andfrom their seats. The roofs d 4 connect with these partitions j j, inwhich, above the said roofs, are the windows I l of the centralcompartment B. This central compartment is entered by a door at themiddle of one or of each end, and is reached by steps k 70 from the endsof the platform or main floor. The seats a a of the lower compartmentsare represented as arranged against the partitions f f, and facing thewindows at m, which occupy the position of the side windows of anordinary car. This arrangement of the seats I consider preferable toarranging them against the sides of the car with their backs to thewindows, as enough height is afforded under the seats h h for sittingpassengers, and enough is afforded under the roofs d d for passengerswalking to and from the seats a a, or standing up in the sidecompartments.

Each of the four seats in this car will accommodate as many sittingpassengers as one of the seats of an ordinary street-car of the samelength; and, hence this car will seat herein described.

ALFRED V. RYDER.

Witnesses: I

FRED. HAYNES, R. E. RABEAU.

